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Jones-20Thcenturylandscape-1997.Pdf Deakin Research Online This is the published version: Jones, David 1997, 20th century landscape design in Adelaide : three significant designers, Journal of the historical society of South Australia, no. 25, pp. 35-57. Available from Deakin Research Online: http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30031830 Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner. Copyright : 1997, The Author 20th Century Landscape Design in Adelaide: Three Significant Designers David Janes' Landscape Design in Australia Landscape design implicates both the art and science of space manipulation and placement of vegetation to create pleasing spaces for human use. Unlike other states in Australia, South Australia does not possess a strong tradition in this discipline.' Marion Blackwell, the Oldhams·and Lady Brodie-Hall [Jean Verschuer] led the evolution of the Western Australian tradition. Edna Walling, Gordon Ford, ElIis Stones, Mervyn Davis, Beryl Mann, Grace Fraser and Olive Melior are early well known designers in Victoria. Jocelyn Brown, Paul Sorenson, Nigel Ashton, Professor Leslie Wilkinson, Denis Winston, Professor Peter Spooner, Marion Mahony and Waiter Burley Griffin laid the foundations of the NSW landscape design community. Elsewhere, Harry Oakman and Don . Monger in Brisbane, and Phyl Simons also contributed to this process. The lack of a strong tradition in South Australia appears to be a consequence ofits semi-arid environment, poor soils, lack of a horticulture school, and the lack of a strong culture in gardening. This has, notwithstanding the rich horticultural and viticultural heritage in the state and the legacY of hill-station gardens in the Adelaide Hills, inhibited the evolution of a strong landscape design culture in the state.' There are, however, a number of landscape designers who have left an indelible impression upon the environment ofSouth Australia. This article outlines the development and booms in landscape design in the state and reviews, in particular, the role, projects and philosophies of three of the most prominent South Australian landscape designers in the twentieth century. Dr David Jones is Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture in the School ofArchileeture, Landscape Architecture & Urban Design al the University of Adelaide. 1. David S. Jones, Designed lAndscapes in South Australia: ThoJn'i£.a/ Fram~rk.s for DesigMd Landsca~ inAwtralLa-SouthAusrralian Report, School ofArchilecture, Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, Univel'jity of Adelaide, 1997, P 44. 2 ibid, pp 33, 40-41, 43-44. 36 20th Century Landscape Design in Adelaide Foundations of a Tradition The initial interest in plants and landscape design in the colony arose from the early establishment o(nurseries and early botanical explorations. The strong Prussian or German botanical community during the 1840s to 1860s in South Australia left a strong footprint upon its botanical profile and Botanic Gardens legacy. The roles and ideas of Schomburgk, Krickauff, Behr, van Mueller, Heyne, Hillebrand and Heuzenroeder informed South Australian plant science. Van Mueller (1825-96) received his botanical training at the University of Kiel before arriving in Adelaide in December 1847; Dr Hans Herman Behr (1818-1904) was trained in medicine at Wurzburg under his mentors Karl Ritter and Alexander van Humboldt; Dr William Hillebrand (1821-86) was trained in medicine at Heidelberg; Heinrich Heuzenroeder came out on the same ship with van Mueller from Duderstadt; Friedrich Eduard Heinrich Wulf Krichauff (1824-1904) was born in Schleswig, also trained at the University of Kiel and became a life-long friend ofvan Mueller; Dr Moritz Richard Schomburgk (1811-91) was born at Freiburg in Saxony; Ernst Bernhard Heyne (1825-81), originally employed at the Dresden Botanic Gardens, was apprenticed under van Mueller in Melbourne.' The intertwining of a strong Prussian or Gemian education system in medicine and botany, informed by the ideas of Ritter and van Humboldt, .appears to have underpinned the development of botany as a science in South Australia. This presence prompted the eXtensive and detailed vegetation surveys that were. undertaken, the later important endeavours of the individuals mentioned here, and the establishment of the Botanic Gardens in Adelaide. The first nurseries in Adelaide were established in the 1838-1840 period. Thomas Alien & Sons advertised their services in the first issues of the SouthAustraLUm Gazette & Colonial Register in June 1838, and occupied land on the old Botanic Gardens site. In 1841 John Bailey established his own nursery, 'Bailey's Garden' or 'Hackney Nursery' in Kent Town, after previously running an Adelaide Citizens' Committee sponsored nursery or 'botanic garden' for the previous year, which persisted on the same site until the property was subdivided in 1881. At the same time Charles Giles 3. Darrell N. Kraebenbuehl, 'Pioneer German Botanists in Colonial South Australia: The Ones Who Stayed-And Those Who Left', unpublished paper presented al the Barossa Valley Festival. 1991. pp 1-19; Jones, op cil, pp 29, 44-45; John H. Maiden, 'A Century of Botanical Endeavour in South Australia', republished address, 1908, 'Records of Australian Botanists', BaIT Smith ubral)', pp 158.199; Enid Robertson, 'Botany', in CR. Twidale, MJ. Tyler & M. Davies (eds), Ideas & End.eavoun-Tm Natural S~nu5 in South Australia, Royal Society of South Australia lnc, Adelaide, 1986, pp lOl-149; Or Pauline Payne, perwnal communicallon, 1996. David lanes 37 established his Grove Hill Nursery at Norton Summit and an 'Exotic Nursery' in Kent Town in 1857.' George Stevenson (1799-1856), the first editor of the South Australilln Gazette & Colonial Register, patronised the horticultural industry in the Gazette, engaged George McEwin as gardener and author, and established the 'Leawood' gardens. McEwin went on to work for George Anstey at 'Highercombe' and to establish his own Glen Ewin Nursery. Edwin Smith acquired Chas M Ware's 1851 established Clifton Nursery at Walkerville in 1863, and in about 1874 took over the 'Leawood' nursery lease. Hackett's Nursery was established in the mid 1850s and was expanded on land at Marryatville in 1863, before the family shifted the nursery operation to Goodwood in the 1920s. Charles FrederickNewmann (b Carl Friedrich Neumann) established the 'Water Gully' 'Model Nursery' near Highercombe in the late 1850s, and the family maintained the extensive nursery holdings until the property was subdivided.in 1932.' Later participants include author and seedsman Ernst Heyne; he established nursery operations in 1870 in Norwood before the business and trading name was shifted to Beulah Park in 1928 where it continues today. Henry Sewell established a nursery in the late 1860s and was trading by 1871 in Payneham; he also established the West Marden Nursery in 1887 and in 1897 the A1dgate Nursery. Herbert Kemp established the Unley Park Nurseries in 1890 and later the Kingswood Nursery, and Kemp's family acquired the A1dgate Nursery from Sewell's estate in 1929.' Early Landscape Design Commissions The first professionally prepared landscape design proposal in South Australia was in 1880 for the Adelaide Parklands by John Ednie Brown (1848-99) as a commission from the City ofAdelaide Council. Brown, then Conservator of Forests (1875-90), proposed a remarkably detailed design.' that is reminiscent of the ideas of John Claudius Loudon (1783-43)8 in the 4. Jones, op cil, pp 33, 40-41; Roben F.G. Swinboume, Yea1'3' ofErukavour:: an historical record oftM Nurseries, Nurserymen, Sudtmen, and Horticultural mails outku ofSouth Ausrralw, South Australian Association of Nurserymen, Adelaide, 1982, pp 1, 3-4. 5. Jones, op cil, pp 40-41; Swinboume, op cit, pp 4-6, 8, 10-11, ]3·14, 16-17. 6. Jones,op cil, pp 25-33. 7. John Ednie Brown, &ponon a System ofPJo.nting in theAdeJo.ith Parlc lAnds, Forest Board, Adelaide sA. 1880. 8. Elizabeth Macdougall (ed), John CJo.udiw Loudon and the early Ni~teenth Century in Great Brito.in, Washington, 1980. 38 20th Century Landscape Design in Adelaide United Kingdom and Frederick LawOlmsted (1822-03)' in the USA and Canada. Brown, the son of lames Brown, the Deputy-Surveyor of Woods and Forest in Scotland and expert on European arboriculture, was well trained in the practical management of nurseries and estates of England and Scotland. Many of these estates had carefully considered the ideas, design and writings of 'Capability' Lancelot Brown, Humphry Repton and lames Claudius Loudon. Following an apprenticeship as Assistant Agent and Forester for the large 1nvercauld estate in Aberdeenshire, Brown moved to England and was responsible for the design and management of several plantations and estates in Yorkshire and Sussex." Before his appointment as Conservator in 1878 Brown had spent 1871-72 visiting the USA and Canada reviewing forestry practices and the creation of estates. Following this visit he wrote 'Report upon Trees found in California' and 'Forests of the Eastern States of America', for which he received the gold medal of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, and 'The Trees of America' essay which won the Scottish Arbor­ icultural Society prize. It is most likely he heard ofthe activities ofOlmsted in the USA and Canada and visited his Central Park and Niagara Parkway designs.ll Some of the planting design structure and plant selection proposed in Brown's Adelaide Parklands Report appears to have been implemented. Mayor [Sir] Edwin Smith subsequently invited Brown to serve as 'Conserv­ ator of Parklands' or 'Supervisor of the Adelaide Park Lands and Square Plantations' to permit the implementation of his recommendations.'2 During the late 1800s Adelaide society established extensive summer estates in the Hills to escape the heat and indulge in plant cultivation pursuits. Rhododendrons, camellias, and northern hemisphere pines, conifers, oaks, ashes and maples were extensively planted around houses and as small plantations. Many of these estates, such as 'Glenalta', 'Beechwood', 'Wairoa', Forest Lodge', 'The Chestnuts', 'St Vigeans' and 'Panmure', still bear this legacy.l3 9. Albert Fein, FredoU:k Law OIm.rt.ed aNi theAmeril:tln Environmental Tradition, Braziller, New York, 1972; Lauren W.
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